Articles, Interviews, Podcasts & More
Feature essay: “Swimming through History: an Olympic tale to open the 2024 Summer Games,” Jewish Review of Books, Summer, 2024.
Podcast: “Picnicking at the End of Empire,” “History in Focus,” Podcast presented by American Historical Review, February 7, 2024.
Professional Learning Content: with Aomar Boum, “Intersecting Histories: Wartime North Africa and the Holocaust,” “Colonialism and the Jews of North Africa,” “The Intersecting Histories of Colonialism and the Jews of North Africa,” and “Jewish Life in Pre-War North Africa,” Facing History & Ourselves, June 30, 2023.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “Resilience Amidst the Ruins: Nfis Valley Endures After the Quake,” The Markaz, 11 September, 2023. Also published in Spanish, French, and Arabic.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “Remembering Al-Gedari: The Quiet Passing of a North African Survivor of WWII,” Jadaliyya, 17 August, 2023.
Feature essay: “Coming of Age in the Sephardi Diaspora,” Jewish Review of Books, Spring 2023.
Radio feature: “The Intersectional Space of a Vichy French WWII Labor Camp in the Algerian Sahara,” The Academic Minute, Nationanl Public Radio, 3 April 2023.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “L’Afrique du Nord pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale : une mémoire douloureuse parfois méconnue,” The Conversation, 8 January 2023.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia – but North Africans' experiences of World War II often go unheard,” The Conversation, 15 November 2022.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “FDR’s broken promise: The Allies defeated the Axis powers in Africa — but the concentration camps stayed open,” Forward, 8 November 2022.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “Famine as a Weapon of War, From Wartime North Africa to Ukraine Today,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 28 July 2022.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “Praise poems depict North African Jewish Responses to World War II,” Jewish Journal 12 July 2022.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “How North African Jews Have Been Erased From Holocaust History,” Ha’aretz magazine, 28 June 2022.
Feature essay: with Aomar Boum, “North African Jews During World War II,” Jewish Review of Books (Spring, 2022).
Online class: “Introduction to Sephardic History in Salonica,” Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York (2022)
Featured talk: “Sephardic Experiences of the Holocaust,” The Jewish Museum, New York (2021)
Panel participant: “Looting, Loss, & Recovery,” The Jewish Museum, New York (2021)
Interview: “North Africa’s Forgotten Holocaust,” Moment Magazine (2021)
Article: “Crazy Rich Sephardim,” Jewish Review of Books (2020)
Interview: “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century,” with Clémence Boulouque, The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York (2020)
Interview: “Family Papers with Dr. Sarah Abrevaya Stein,” online book talk with The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America.
Podcast: “Summer reading: Family Papers,” Unorthodox, Tablet, hosted by Stephanie Butnick.
Podcast: “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century,” WNYC “All of It,” hosted by Alison Stewart (2020)
Podcast: “A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century,” New Books, hosted by David Gottleib (2020)
Onstage interview: Arts & Ideas at the SF JCC, with Janine Zacharia (2020)
Podcast: “Family Papers and the Sephardic Twentieth Century,” Jewish History Matters, hosted by Jason Lustig (2020)
Interview: “A Nod to Nostalgia: A Conversation Between Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Josh Kun,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2020)
Feature Essay: “Vital Hasson, the Jew who worked Nazis, hunted down refugees, and tore apart families in WWII Greece,” The Conversation (2020)
Podcast: “An interview with Sarah Abrevaya Stein,” Too Jewish Podcast (2020)
Interview: “Four Questions (and a little more), Sarah Abrevaya Stein,” Di Feder, The Yiddish Book Center Alumni Newsletter (2019)
Interview: “Meet historian, writer, and educator Sarah Abrevaya Stein,” with playwright and writer Rachel Carnes (2019)
Feature: “Professor’s book about Sephardic Jews chosen as best of 2019,” UCLA Newsroom (2019)
Excerpt: “A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster,” Literary Hub (2019)
Podcast: “Family Papers and Ottoman Jewish Life After Empire,” Ottoman History Podcast with Sarah Abrevaya Stein, hosted by Sam Dolbee (2019)
Podcast: “A Story of Sephardic Jewish History Through a Family’s Journey,” The Shmooze, The Yiddish Book Center’s Podcast (2019)
Interview: Q&A with Deborah Kalb (2019)
Feature article: “What we lose when we ignore Holocaust history in North Africa,” with Aomar Boum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Medium magazine (2019)
Video: “Beyond Hollywood’s Casablanca: North Africa and the Holocaust,” with Aomar Boum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2019)
Podcast: “Extraterritoriality, Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century,” Ottoman History Podcast with Sarah Abrevaya Stein, hosted by Nir Shafir (2019)
Feature: Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA (2018)
Article: “#MeToo, Tunisia, 1937,” with Lia Brozgal, Jewish Journal (2018)
Article: “Hard Luck and a Bit of Pluck,” with Lia Brozgal, Stanford University Press Blog (2017)
Podcast: “Extraterritorial Dreams,” with Shira Kohen, New Books in Jewish Studies Podcast (2016)
Profile: AHA Member Spotlight (2016)
Interview: “Sephardi Lives in Living Color,” with Hannah Pressman and Julia Phillips Cohen, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies (2015)
Podcast: “Saharan Jews and French Algeria,” with Alma Heckman, tajine North African History Podcast (2014)
Feature Article: “Sephardi Lives: From Ottoman Salonica to Rosario, Argentina,” with Julia Phillips Cohen, Jewish Review of Books, Fall (2014).
Feature Article: “Algeria’s Jewish Past-Present,” Jadaliyaa (2014)
Podcast: “Salonica Stories,” a Vox Tablet podcast, with Aron Rodrigue, on A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica with Sara Ivry (2012)
Podcast: “Reading Ladino in Greece,” with Aron Rodrigue, The Jewish Daily Forward interview/podcast with Dan Friedman (2012)
Video interview: “A Jewish Voice from Salonica,” with Aron Rodrigue, The Human Experience: Inside the Humanities at Stanford University, (2012)
Feature Article: “Ruffling feathers,” Jewish Book World 28/2 (2010)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia Entries
“The ‘International League Against Anti-Semitism’ in North Africa,” with Aomar Boum (2019)
“Anti-Jewish Legislation in North Africa,” with Aomar Boum (2019)
“Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa,” with Aomar Boum (2019)
“Jews in the Maghreb on the eve of the World War Two” with Aomar Boum and Chris Silver (2019)
Select Academic Writing
“Botánica Sephardica,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 64/3 (July, 2022).
“The Queen of Herbs: a plant’s-eyed view of a Jewish diaspora,” Jewish Quarterly Review 112/1 (Winter, 2022).
“Black holes, dark matter, and buried troves: decolonization and the multi-sited archives of Algerian Jewish history,” for roundtable forum, “The Archives of Decolonization” co-organized for The American Historical Review 120/3 (June) by Jordanna Bailkin and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (2015)
“Citizens of a Fictional Nation: Ottoman-born Jews in France during the First World War,” Past & Present (2014)
“The field of In Between,” solicited contribution to roundtable forum, “Jewish identities in the Middle East, 1876-1956,” International Journal of Middle East Studies (2014)
“Protected persons? The Baghdadi Jewish diaspora, the British state, and the persistence of empire,” American Historical Review (2011)
“‘Falling into Feathers’: Jews and the trans-Atlantic ostrich feather trade,” The Journal of Modern History (2007)
Digital Projects
“100 Years of Sephardic Life in Los Angeles,” a production of the UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, supervised by Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Caroline Luce (forthcoming)
Online companion to A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: the Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi (Stanford University Press) by Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein featuring reproduction of original Ladino memoir (2012)
“How does one invent a canon?” “Plumbing 250 Years of Sephardi History, a Q&A with Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein,” “A Russian Jewish Woman in New York Seeks Dating Advice (in 1916),” “Message in a Bottle,” and “Dear Rebecca,” with Julia Phillips Cohen, Stanford University Press Blog (2014)